CSS is more flexible, gives smaller Web pages, once understood easier to use [particularly with Dreamweaver v8 up] ... With CSS you get a clear distinction between structure [XHTML] and formatting [CSS] ...

I cannot recommend that. Take the non-CSS version in this particular case because the CSS version of the BlancoWS template looks ugly in Internet Explorer! That is not a fault of CSS but of the programmer who didn't take care of IE...